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New Apple 'Get A Mac' Ads On Canadian TV?
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jimsowden said:
Good Point, Touche.
I do have a DVR, a Motorola one, and the Firewire ports do not talk to my Mac so that I can digitize the TV signal. I saved the commercial on the DVR and I used my camcorder with a tripod to tape the screen on my Plasma TV. I wanted to get the commercial on the internet as soon as possible. It even took me an hour to compress the video on my Mac due to some technical problems; even Macs are not perfect
.A video converter bridge is the best thing to have. I do have a Canopus ADVC300 for such work but I lent it out
. http://www.canopus.com/I could have used my PowerMac 7300 that has a video capture card and it would have been better. Unfortunately, I gutted the 7300 and tried to upgrade everything in it and it did not work and I need to fix it.
pwfletcher said:I have been a macrumors user for a long time and really appreciate their hard work. However, I am going to stop surfing to macrumors.com if they keep putting those lame ads that stick to my screen on their site ... I DON'T WANT TO FILL OUT THE STUPID SURVEY!!!!
Just a rant from someone who has had enough
It's happened to a few other people on OSX / safari too.
See this thread
https://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?p=2869728
Arn (site god) is investigating, and hopefully the offending ad will be be basted to smithereens.
last I checked...yesterday.... apple had those ads up on its site as well.
and its the same old mac guy...and pc guy.
and its the same old mac guy...and pc guy.
Your camcorder is most likely a birdge, you can just plug the DVR into it.rcnscan said:Good Point, Touche.
I do have a DVR, a Motorola one, and the Firewire ports do not talk to my Mac so that I can digitize the TV signal. I saved the commercial on the DVR and I used my camcorder with a tripod to tape the screen on my Plasma TV. I wanted to get the commercial on the internet as soon as possible. It even took me an hour to compress the video on my Mac due to some technical problems; even Macs are not perfect
A video converter bridge is the best thing to have. I do have a Canopus ADVC300 for such work but I lent it out
I could have used my PowerMac 7300 that has a video capture card and it would have been better. Unfortunately, I gutted the 7300 and tried to upgrade everything in it and it did not work and I need to fix it.
Edit: I'm not trying to be citical, and thanks much for posting it up, I just wanted to suggest a better way, or understand why it's not possible.
Is it just me or does someone else also finds these ads just OK?
The microsoft office one is the better of the two, but still i feel they both lack the killer punch!
The microsoft office one is the better of the two, but still i feel they both lack the killer punch!
What are the names of the actors? Which is which?
It's classic Laurel and Hardy casting: fat guy, skinny guy. Except in the ads the skinny (Apple) guy seems to be the straight man.
It's classic Laurel and Hardy casting: fat guy, skinny guy. Except in the ads the skinny (Apple) guy seems to be the straight man.
ugh, Google Video took them over and at the end of them they have a "Post to Blog/MySpace" option. Is MySpace that popular that it has to overdo the "embed" function?
All 3 new ads can be seen by refreshing www.news.com
I'm sure this is old new but they are there, if the links have been removed. As of 230pm columbus day still not on the apple website.
I'm sure this is old new but they are there, if the links have been removed. As of 230pm columbus day still not on the apple website.
